RIOT/NY HIRES ANIMATION SUPERVISOR HACKETT
Hackett is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts. He got his start at Digital Domain, where he worked on Titanic in 1995. He then moved to Centropolis and worked on Godzilla as the lead animator for the Babyzillas. A four-year term in Hawaii allowed him to work on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, followed by The Animatrix: The Final Flight of the Osiris.
In 2002, he returned to LA to once again work for Centropolis, where he contributed to Matrix 2 and 3 before moving on to Asylum. It was at Asylum that Hackett completed numerous films, commercials and pre-vis sequences. Highlights there included a collaboration with Peter Weir on Master and Commander, as well as work on The Amityville Horror, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and the trailer for Transformers.
Additionally, in 2003, he was asked by Digital Domain to serve as lead animator on the S.O.N.N.Y. robot featured in I, Robot.